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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Bowhunter Bob Stout provides a brief commentary on being in the woods.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

We hate mosquitoes.

But why?  I mean, yes --- West Nile, dengue, malaria, Zika…not to mention ruined picnics, sleepless nights, and bites you scratch until they bleed … Those are logical reasons to dislike mosquitoes.  But admit it – they also just creep you out.

Jeffrey Lockwood gets at the psychology in his book “The Infested Mind.” He’s an entomologist who once had a truly horrific encounter with a swarm of grasshoppers.   He was left traumatized. Afterwards he wondered why we all fear and loathe insects so much.

Lockwood told Rehman Tungekar the answer is deep deep in our psyches.

 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

David Edmonds talks with Steve Paulson about an incident in the life of philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein and explains why Wittgenstein’s views have been supplanted.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

For all the trend watching and forecasting, it has to be someone’s job to create the future… to come up with something truly new.

For decades, musician and producer Butch Vig has been doing just that. Vig says from the beginning, he wanted to make music that was different from what he was hearing in the mainstream.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Ryan DeCurtidor brings us this story of a couple breaking up during a mass exodus from Earth.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Art Spiegelman's new book is “In the Shadow of No Towers” in which he recounts his very personal response to 9-11. 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Cartoonist David Rees's cult hit comic, “Get Your War On” grew out of his frustration at the lack of satire in New York after 9/11.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Cecil Brown has researched the true story that gave rise to the Stagolee myth, and explains what the song has meant to various groups, especially within the African-American community.

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